Manufacture of boots and shoes



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J. OROUTT. MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES. No'. 248,109. S Patented Oct. 11,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH OROUTT, OF WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.

MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,109, dated October 11, 1881.

Application filed J une 4, 1881. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH ORCUTT, of Weymouth, of the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of a shoe provided with my invention. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on an enlarged scale, taken through the vamp. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken through the shoe at its quarters.

A'shoe or a boot made in accordance with my improvement has the vamp portion of its upper lapped on the top, edge, and bottom of the insole, and the stitching or sewing of the vamp to the soles carried through the two laps of the vamp, and also through the inner and outer soles, in which case the edge of the insole becomes covered by the vamp and causes the shoe to resemble what is usually termed Furthermore, the outer sole may be formed with its edge projecting a short distance beyond the edge of the insole and its covering of vamp, such being to cause the outer sole to serve as a guard to the said covering, to prevent injury of it while the shoe or boot may be in use. With such a shoe or boot the upper at the shank and heel may be applied and secured in like manner to the insole and the outer sole; but I prefer to simply lap the upper at the shank and heel on the bottom of theinsole, or extend it between the two soles and connect. it and them by means of a welt and sewing in the ordinary way, or by sewing them together by a McKay sewing-machine, in which latter case the stitches would go directly through the upper and the inner and outer soles.

In the drawings, A represents the upper or vamp, B B the quarters, G the outer sole, and D the insole, of the shoe.

The vamp around the next adjacent portion of the insole laps not only on the upper surface of such portion for a short distance inside of and from and parallel to such edge, but is turned down about such edge and thencein between the insole and the outer sole, such being as represented in Figs.land 3. The stitching a goes down through the lap lot the vamp on the upper surface of the insole, thence through the insole and part m of the vamp, between it and the outsole, and thence through the outer sole.

In the drawings the outer sole is shown at b as projecting a short distance outwardly beyond the edge of the insole, and the vamp coverin g such edge.

Iclaim as my improvementin boots or shoes-- 1. The upper or vamp as lapped on both sides of the insole and around its edge, and connected to the insole and outsole by stitching going through thetwo laps and the two soles, all substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the upper or vamp ot a hoot or shoe lapped on both sides of the insole and about its edge, and connected to the two soles by stitching going through the soles and the laps'of the vamp or upper upon the insole, the outer sole as projected along its edge a short distance outwardly beyond the vamp-covering of the edge of the insole, all being substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: JOSEPH OROUTT.

SALLY B. WHITE, LUcY ArWHITE. 

